How to make textbox Invisible when viewed on screen but visible when printed?

I have a couple reports that have parameters on them. Problem is when the report is printed, the parameters are not displayed.

To solve this, I have added the selected values to the header section of the report in a text box. I now want to find away to hide these values when the report is being viewed on screen but visible when printed. Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks

Does anybody have any suggestions on this or a workaround. I want the user to be able to know the parameters they selected when they print the report.

Thanks

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Hello,

You could have another parameter called "Show Parameters" (defaulted to False), then set the visibility of your textbox based on this value. Of course, your users would have to check that box to show them before they printed/exported.

Hope this helps.

Jarret

|||Thanks, interesting and simple work around. I have implemented it. Let's see if the clients like it.

How to make table columns invisible

Hope this is the correct forum for this question. I have set up membership and roles, and have a login function. I am using a grid view and a form view to show some information that is unique to each user. In particular, I want the grid view to show the user’s client list (client first name, last name and email), and the form view to allow input by the user of client names and emails.

I have set up the grid view and connected it to a table in my data base. This is a table that includes UserName (which is also in the aspnet_Users table), Client ID (which gets set automatically by the program), clientFirstName, ClientLastname, and ClientEmail. I have a select statement of:

SELECT * FROM [Clients] WHERE ([UserName] = @.UserName)

I have checked off “Generate Insert, Update, and Delete Statements” and optimistic concurrency.

In the grid view, I’ve enabled editing and deleting in the menu task bar, and I’ve edited the columns to make ClientID and UserName “false” for the visible property (I don’t want them to show up when the user is viewing the web page).

But the problem is, when I run the application, when I try to edit a line and hit update, it won’t take the change. This does not happen if I set the UserName visible property to “true” (and so have UserName show up).

For the form view, I similarly want to have UserName and ClientID be invisible to the user.

I'm using Visual Studio 2005 Pro, and SQL Developer Edition.

Any tips on how I might do this would be appreciated! Thanks.

Tom,

You want to post this to asp.net forum. Basically, if you just bind your data resultset to a gridview, all columns will show up. To suppress the column, you need to modify the grid's column property or don't ask for the column in your sql query.|||

OJ,

Thanks much for your reply. I'll post on asp.net. It's strange, I tried to suppress the UserName column (through using "false" for the visible property), but when I do that I'm not able to edit entries when I run the application. And if I don't ask for the UserName column with the sql query, I run into the same problem. I tried using "UserId" instead of UserName in the query, but when I ran the app I got an error message that it's not part of the profile common class. I'll keep trying, thanks again.

Tom

|||Tom,

It's worth checking out info here. There are lots of info and examples for you to pick up.
http://www.asp.net/QuickStart/aspnet/doc/ctrlref/data/gridview.aspx

g'luck.|||Great, thanks OJ! I'll delve into that and see what I can come up with.

how to make a textbox invisible

hi
how can i make a textbox invisible ?
here is the scenario.
i have a textbox to remind user to select some parameters to view the graph.
once the user selects the paramteters - the graph shows up.
once the graph shows up -the textbox should disappear.
how can i do thatright click the text box, select Properties
click Advanced >>
in the Advanced Textbox Properties
click the Visibility tab
in the Initial visibility radio button group check the Visible radio button
and below check the Visibility can be toggled by another report item
in the Report item drop down list pick your chart
i haven't tried this, it's off the top of my head, but i hope it's a good
first step,
regards,
kowlasky
"RP" wrote:
> hi
> how can i make a textbox invisible ?
> here is the scenario.
> i have a textbox to remind user to select some parameters to view the graph.
> once the user selects the paramteters - the graph shows up.
> once the graph shows up -the textbox should disappear.
> how can i do that|||But we can only see textboxes in the dropdown of "visibility can be toggled
by another report item"
:-( any other suggestions ''''
Thanks
"kowalsky" wrote:
> right click the text box, select Properties
> click Advanced >>
> in the Advanced Textbox Properties
> click the Visibility tab
> in the Initial visibility radio button group check the Visible radio button
> and below check the Visibility can be toggled by another report item
> in the Report item drop down list pick your chart
> i haven't tried this, it's off the top of my head, but i hope it's a good
> first step,
> regards,
> kowlasky
>
> "RP" wrote:
> > hi
> > how can i make a textbox invisible ?
> > here is the scenario.
> > i have a textbox to remind user to select some parameters to view the graph.
> > once the user selects the paramteters - the graph shows up.
> > once the graph shows up -the textbox should disappear.
> > how can i do thatsql